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TBH History: Scientific Revolution

How are you able to watch this video on your laptop or cell phone? You might think that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had a lot to do with it, and they did, but the whole story actually started hundreds of years ago. Men like Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton made observations about the universe and had to stand up to powerful people. In doing so, they ushered in a revolution—the Scientific Revolution—that would change the world.